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chapter 14-17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cultural diffusion | the process by wich people adopt the parctces of their neighbors |
| renaissance | the revival of art literature and learning that took place in europe during the fourteenth fifteenth and sixteenth centuries |
| industrial revolution | the shitf frim human power t o machine power |
| summit | the highest point if mountian or similar elevation |
| previlling wesrerlies | the constant flow of air from west to east in the tempreate zones of the earth |
| euro | the common currency used by member nations of the european |
| penicula | water on three sides of land |
| compulsory | reqwierd |
| fertile | able to produce abunadantly |
| ore | a rocky meterial cintaining a valuable mineral |
| tertiary economic ativity | an ecinomic activity in wic people do not directly gater or process raw materials but pursue acticities that seve otiers servuce inderstry |
| moor | board treeless rolling land often poorly drained and heing patches of marsh and peat bog |
| bog | an area of wet spongy ground |
| glen | a narrow valley |
| peat | spongy meterial containing waterlogged and deacying mosses and plants some times dried and used as fuel |
| cultural duvergence | THE RESTRICATION OF A CULTURE from out side influences |
| blight | a plant desease |
| fjord | a narrow valley or inlet frm the sea originally coverd out by an adcanving glacier and filled by melting glacial ice |
| geothermal | energy produced from the earth column of water and team into the air |
| mixed economy | a system combinding diffrent degrees of goverment regulation |
| dialect | variaions of laguage that are unique to a region or coumunity |
| impressionism | this school of are sought to capture feeting visual impressions made by color light and shadows |
| nationalize | brought under state controal sien businesses cibsudered vital to national intrests |
| recession | an extended decli in business activity |
| confederation | or losse political union |
| reparation | money for war damages |
| inflation | or sharply rising prices ruined the value if germanys currency |
| lignite | a soft brown coal |
| dike | or embanksments of earth and rock to hold back the water |
| polder | beginning in te 1200 the dutch used wind mills to power the pumps that removed water from the land |
| decentralize | its goverment that is transfer power to smaller regions |
| canton | a political division or state one of the states in switzerland |
| neutral | not taking sides in a war |
| perishable good | meaning that it does not stay fresh for long most of it is turned into processed products like chocolate and heese for export |
| strip mining | where minersstrip away the surface of the earth to lay bare the mineral depostits |
| navigable | deep and wide enough ti allow the passage of ships |
| dry farming | a farming technique that leaves land unplanted every few years in order to gathier moisture |
| sirocco | a hot dry wind from northjern africa |
| hub | a central point of concentrated activity and influence |
| seismic activity | earthquakes and valacno erupshions |
| subsidence | a gllogical phenimenon in wich the ground in an area sinks |
| renaissance | the revival of art literature and learning that tood place in europe durng the fourteenth fifteenth and sictheenth centuries |
| garben | a long narrow are that has dropped between two faults |
| inhabitable | able to support permanent residents |
| tsunami | a huge wave caused primarily by a dusturbance beneath the ocean such as an earthquake or a valcano eruption |
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